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> The reason more women aren't in software is staring us right in the face.

Yes, I agree completely. The reason is entirely clear - from a young age, boys are marketed to in an entirely different fashion than girls, parents gently nudge their daughters into more passive roles, and the types of toys that are available for girls that don't reinforce social stereotypes suck in a fashion that I don't think I can explain to someone who isn't raising a daughter.

Lego has finally released some Legos (yeah, I pluralize it) that appeal to girls, and while some of them are lame (a hair salon, for example), others are cool, but the vast overwhelming acreage of the girls' half of any given toy store is filled with pink dolls, barbies, kitchen sets, crap to do with your hair, and the the type of half-assed girl versions of boy toys that make a responsible parent want to burn the place down.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Even in the US there are multiple carriers active in every market, and I assume that 3G is competing against LTE as products for the same provider, in the same market. That should mean that LTE subscribers might turn off their LTE to get better call-connect speed, or simply choose a 3G subscription if that functions adequately enough for their general data needs.

That might mean that the big problem will be to convince people to jump to LTE (and the higher price) with slightly worse end-user voice experience. Some customers will, but perhaps many won't. Artificial quality degradation of 3G might be the answer for that, or limiting the 3G-only contract data limits to encourage LTE adoption.
Sexism is not endemic to software. As far as I've seen, there's no compiler flag that declares your gender (or race, or cultural background). That's actually one of the great things about it - it's objective. Your code isn't female or Asian or Black or gay or whatever - it compiles or it doesn't, solves the problem or it doesn't.

Of course, sexism is present in software communities. It's spearheaded by the boneheads, condoned by the silent, and condemned by those who would like to see it change. And that's a fine thing.
The billing system causes a 2-4 second delay when first connecting a call. Using Skype or other "data is data" VoIP app (that doesn't treat voice-data differently from data-data) would avoid that problem and have plenty of bandwidth.
You would only make the lower with a 3d printer.

Here is an example: http://hackaday.com/2012/07/26/3d-printed-ar-15-lower-works/

You would still want metal for the barrel (of course) and trigger assembly. Pretty much anything taht routes hot gases or contains explosions has to be fabbed from steel. The lower is only a mount point for some comopnents and a guide for the magazine.
At Room Key we're investigating Datomic. It's definitely interesting.
cool site. I hadn't seen that before.
What was the talk even about?
Muttils[1] makes it easier to deal with html email in mutt, and has a bunch of other goodies as well. I hit one keystroke and I'm looking at the html message in my web browser.

[1]http://lee-phillips.org/muttheaven/
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People, profits, and women would indicate the set "People" and set "Women" are disjoint.
Here's a "hard fact". There are a lack of women in IT.

Here's a useful proposal - stop making sexist comments in your talks.

The above I hope you can take as insight.
Woz hasn't worked for Apple since the early 1980s. He got in a minor plane crash, got freaked out because he could have died and was "wasting his life in business" or something like that. Stopped working for Apple and started putting on the "US Festival!" which was not a financial success. So he stopped. He's been pursuing essentially charitable causes, for the most part, since.

He did invent the universal remote (but it got copied by everybody right away.)

He's a nice and well meaning guy and was a consumate engineer. But he was never the product guy.

On the Apple II he liked to try and get as much functionality out of as few parts as a challenge-- a technical challenge. It was Jobs who knew this would let them have a competitive advantage (or cared about it, anyway.)

He was critical to the early years of Apple. Jobs was not nearly as good of an engineer (but unlike what many people seem to think, Jobs was an engineer.)

but it was Jobs who understood how to make products really great, and why you needed to, and who made Apple the company it is today.

It was Jobs who cared about design as much as engineering.
I got into the habit of making an extra portion for dinner that I take to work as lunch for the next day. It's quite low effort and I get to eat tasty food every day.
As much work and sometimes (depending on the office) isolation as it generates, I would go for bringing food from my home, and reserve canteens for just 1 or 2 days per week.
"P.S. What sort of stupid comment is "you've never raised a woman"? What, you can only be upset about sexism if you've had children? Or, for that matter, have a daughter?"

it looks to be the sort of comment whose context was discarded and ignored so you have something to get angry about.
Can you elaborate on the bad connotations?

Prohibition era gangsters?
only really via IFTTT, though think I could migrate as most of the people I care to follow on Twitter are broadly doing the same, so whilst I am not actively using it, the ability to jump ship a lot easier is there
Can anyone comment on whether buying one of these is worth it and if they've seen any savings?
Your choice of school greatly changes how fast you'll repay your schooling.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/which-colleges-help-grads-s...

Additionally, going to school doesn't have to saddle you with debt, because it doesn't preclude you from working at the same time. I think it says a lot about a person if you're able to work and keep up your grades.
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By what criteria do you define construction as a profession?
No, it doesn't because "people" probably means users or customers or maybe your team, and "women" is a substitute for "pussy" which means people you want to have sex with. It would actually be ethically questionable for those sets not to be disjoint.
Please read the whole post for context. I am talking about the type system in TypeScript thinking that `l` is a string (which you can find out, for instance, by hovering over the `var` keyword in Visual Studio), when in fact, as you pointed out, it is a number. I assume this is because TypeScript caters to the most common case of indexing a string to obtain a single character (another string, basically).
SemiAccurate is very deeply embedded in the semiconductor industry and in the OEMs. Charlie Demerjian has a track record of relaying privately held opinions of executives in those industries, stuff that would be a PR disaster for those organizations should their CEOs decide not to shut up.

I personally trust Charlie's analyses.
If the new Samsung Chromebook could run Windows, I'd get one of them, and stick a bigger SSD in it. Even in it's current crippled form, I'm tempted by putting Ubuntu on it.

http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/laptops/1293349/samsung-serie...
Ask HN: What websites are leading the way in terms of web development?
As it says in the title. Beautiful and clever development is a very subjective issue but I'm interested in the collective HN opinion on what sites define the standard for what all web developers should be striving for.

Sites such as http://www.milwaukeepolicenews.com/ to me at least, look streets ahead of 'mainstream' websites so I'm curious to know what other examples I should be aware of.
Nice, but needs face recognition. I can't be bothered to draw myself!
This needs some editing by a more experienced English speaker if it's to be widely read.
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Ask PG: Is HN blocking some IPs from Optimum Online (Cablevision) in NYC area?
When I browse, curl, or telnet to news.ycombinator.com through Optimum Online (Cablevision), and GET /, the connection is immediately "closed by foreign host".

When I browse through AT&T or curl/telnet from AWS etc., the site responds normally with content.

The same symptom, or a redirect to 1.1.1.1, is happening to others in NYC area on Optimum as well.

Was there an attack of some kind that got an IP range blacklisted server-side? Optimum insists they are not filtering news.ycombinator.com.
"The reason more women aren't in software is staring us right in the face but we're too busy being dismissively sexist to see it."

This is the primary argument I disagree with. As someone who's worked with ad agencies, I can say sexism is so much worse there, yet there are tons of women in advertising. I agree with the poster that this type of thing shouldn't be tolerated in a professional context, but I don't think this is the reason women are not interested in computer science as a major and job choice (it may be the reason they have a high attrition rate once there though)
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I don't think you can exclude Apple when looking for the problem. Last time I compared Macbook Airs with Ultrabooks, the Macbooks were better computers for the price. The so-called "Apple tax" doesn't seem to apply to this category like it does to regular laptops/desktops. (Or, as the article suggests, perhaps the Intel Tax is equally taxing)
Eh, the place would be amazing to relax in, but I feel like it would be too distracting to work. Notch might be different though.
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That PDF link is a 404.
Ah right, misread your post. I was just commenting in general on the VS support, you are right that it would not be as nice on other platforms.
"It's self evident that if you are offensive towards women, it's less likely they will participate in IT or Computer Science."

Of course, but that doesn't change the need for a citation of that specific claim. For instance we can observe interests in young children well before they enter our complex world with rampant sexism and bigotry, and even then we see similar patterns: girls aren't as interested in CS. Sexism is still obviously a problem in our industry, I'm not disputing that, but there's nothing wrong with requesting a source when somebody makes a claim.

Quoting the citation needed tag is just a whimsical way of stating it, there's no need for personal offense.
They have a couple of female employees, their finance manager is female and has worked there for about a year, their "director of fun" (manages events, media relations) is also female and has worked there for about 8 months. They both talk highly of the office so I guess it's more than just a "man cave".
How the heck is what I've quoted removed from its context? He stated that "If you really think this is the cause of lack of women in CS, you've never raised a woman."

In other words, he's saying that you can't comment on this if you've never had a daughter to raise. How else do you interpret that?

In fact, that's exactly what I'm annoyed about. I've not taken him out of context. I'll thank you not to tell me I have. It is very stupid to say you can't comment on hostility to one segment of the population will disuade many of thos people from taking up IT or Computer Sciense just because you are not part of that population, or that you would have had to be a parent of one of those people.

edit: as has been pointed out by sp332 (I can't reply), it appears I have indeed being following through a logical fallacy.

I am in the process of "raising a woman", so regardless if my fallacious reasoning about what I thought of the original comment, the proposition still proves to be false :-)
Next step: create a Facebook app that lets you export your foldable.me to a facebook profile picture, maybe with something that lets you do a nice integration of profile picture + timeline cover photo.

foldable.me goes viral as friends see their friends use the site. You end up with tons of people using the site who would never consider paying $12 for a piece of coloured cardboard...

but once they get an emotional attachment to their avatar you can follow up with some lifecycle emails to convert them into a purchasing customer.

You could also have a feature where friends could gift their foldable.me to other friends.
The dark, heavy furniture looks like what (Danish) furniture shops make for the US market, very different from the open, light, and minimalistic Scandinavian (mostly Swedish) design school used for products made for the home market. You know the design from IKEA, but there exists much more expensive (and somewhat higher quality) products.

My first reaction was that this might be a deliberate provocation against what would be considered good taste in Sweden.
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Very nice and cute. I'd definitely use for gifts.

Bug report: the rotation and bottom scrolling buttons for lists didn't work for me in Chrome.
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They have close to 30 employees, I think ~24 are in-office. Not sure if the list on the Minecraft wiki is accurate but it's pretty close (they added one maybe two in the recent weeks): http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Mojang
Why iOS 6 Just Turned Your iPad 1G Into a Paperweight
So why did Apple quietly abandon the iPad 1 with iOS 6? lack of RAM. the iPad 1 only has 256 MB of RAM. Back in 2010, that was enough to handle iOS 4 and the current crop of available apps in the App Store. But as the apps and OS got more complicated, and started running in the background, I’ve seen major performance issues on the iPad 1.
> stick them on our kanban board

note~ "kanban" already includes the notion of a board, so "kanban board" is sort of like "PIN number".
I bought one of these at the beginning of the summer and I definitely noticed a fairly significant savings. In my case I updated from a really old, couldn't-be-programmed, thermostat right to one of these which almost certainly skews the results since any kind of programmable thermostat would have shown a savings.

I live in NJ and work in NYC so during the week I'm only home for a few hours, besides sleeping, and it learned my schedule on its own. When I get home it's just kicked in and started bringing the temperature down and it goes off shortly after I leave.

The only issue I had was during the first setup it mixed up the heater and air conditioning because of my settings. But I just restored and went back through and changed what I selected and all was well.
More whiteboard coding won’t build you a better team
When you paste this into the Playground, and hover over the `var
Seriously? The "useful proposals" are spelled out in the next-to-last section.

TLDR version: conference organizers need to stop tolerating this sort of thing. Everyone involved should "admit you screwed up, apologize, and tell me how you’ll prevent this in the future."
your argument was this: "What, you can only be upset about sexism if you've had children?" which is an absurd takeaway from their comment. unless of course, you leave out "If you really think this is the cause of lack of women in CS". which you did.

"he's saying that you can't comment on this if you've never had a daughter to raise".

no, i don't believe that's what he's saying at all and i have no idea how you extrapolate that. moreso, i'm not sure we have sufficient evidence that cheeze is male like you suggest.
The problem with serious stockpiling is that you make yourself a target for anyone who didn't, if the worst actually happened. A stockpile of weapons might help protect you, but if you're sitting on years and years of food and survival equipment in a wasteland of thousands of starving and desperate people, chances are most of your weapons will just be one more thing looted from your corpse after a less well prepared and more desperate person gets lucky.

That's why you need to stockpile something which will be extremely valuable after an apocalypse, but not worth killing you over. Something which is cheap now, but that most people with a little extra food stockpiled might be willing to trade you for. Something you need and will use daily anyway: toilet paper.

Plus, any accidental death resulting from your toilet paper stockpile is probably going to be hilarious .
I recently switched from a job where the corporate cafeteria (horrible) was the only option, to a new job in town of my food full city. No one know how much of a big deal that difference was in my decision to switch.
"...or men. Whatever."
That is a fascinating paper. Very cool.
hard to believe that my iPad 1 is basically obsolete in Apple's eyes at this point. In the future, let’s hope Tim Cook adds "2-year+ lifetime" to their long term product strategy.
Steven Strogatz has done a lot of work on things like this in the past - including this experiment.

http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_strogatz_on_sync.html

In the simple case of just two metronomes on a single moving plane, the tendency for sync is governed by a non linear differential equation. The math gets rather complicated:
http://salt.uaa.alaska.edu/dept/metro.pdf
> The best available evidence shows that one factor completely overwhelms all others - the number of cyclists on the road. [...] Motorists cannot be blamed for struggling to predict the movements of a type of vehicle which they encounter rarely and do not understand.

The reason for increased safety may have less to do with better prediction and more to do with the fact that the motorized traffic speed slows to slowest cyclist speed as the number of cyclists increases. There is no way to go fast if there is a cyclist every 100ft in the same lane as the cars.
The way I see it:

1. TypeScript is an answer to the poor state of JavaScript development today and an attempt to get more structure into it. There are other answers as well, and it can be discussed on properties of each of them, but they are competing in the same domain.

2. Since state of JavaScript is as it is, it is obvious that there is a lot of potential benefit in being a leader of the technology in that domain. Regarding that, it is kind of answer to forces that are trying to ensure domination in that domain for the future.
I miss that about New York. If you avoid the tourist traps, you can get great food for reasonable prices.

In Berlin pretty much all the food is cheap, but very little of it is good. The standard of sushi is generally passable, though it's not my favorite thing.
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And now they have non-minimal expenses, and they are unlikely to have another hit of even half Minecraft's success ever again - Minecraft was a HUGE outlier.
He said you would have had to raise a woman. The second part of the sentence leads from the first - he's saying that only those who "raised a woman" can think a certain way about sexism.

It's easy to disprove it too. It's a universal quantifier. If I find just one person who had "raised a woman" who thinks the way he says you can't, then the proposition is proven false.
An entire document management solution running on a $35 single board computer.
Corporations and Start Ups
Proudly showing how I paid a few thousand dollars to corporation that showed total disregard to its users[1][2] http://cl.ly/JspZ

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3952263

[2] https://getsatisfaction.com/adobe/topics/why_are_uk_prices_n...
Slightly OT, but lots of pictures of other offices here: http://www.officesnapshots.com/
Apple has extra leverage, though, because of its perceived importance in the market. Look at visual voicemail: Apple decided IVR voicemail sucked, and worked its way through carriers until it could find one that would support changing its voicemail architecture. That carrier then turned both the iPhone and that feature into a competitive advantage.

If Apple really wanted to, it seems like they could have strong-armed their way into some higher-quality audio standard -- earlier deployment of VoLTE if nothing else, since that's going to happen eventually anyway. That said, I'm not especially surprised that they didn't; Apple has historically actually been pretty timid with wireless technology, and the biggest bafflingly absent feature of the original iPhone was that it didn't include a 3G radio even though 3G was already widely deployed.
My home has separate heating and cooling systems. (The heating is done with radiators and the cooling is a conventional AC.) Does anybody happen to know if Nest works in this type of system?
US government gets an "F" for IPv6 Internet make-over
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I haven't directly noticed any savings (although I haven't payed much attention,) but the design, remote access, and general pleasantness of it are well worth it.

They have clearly paid a lot of attention to even the smallest details and if you like that kind of thing, a Nest Thermostat will make you very, very happy.
What do you mean? You couldn't download the book? Did you get in touch with me?
I don't see how CS and TS are different when it comes to compilation. They're both self-hosted and they both compile to pretty straightforward JS.

Dart is different, since it has a runtime.
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You can't be serious. This place is Apple central, you usually get banned if you say something bad about Steve Jobs.
Thanks. Let us know what you think of them.
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What happens when one of the APIs for node or Mongo adds a function? Would we have to wait for TypeScript to add the function to the interface, otherwise there will always be compilation errors? This sounds a little delicate.
The telco world tried to do deploy IMS already in the 3G era but couldn't get it working due to complexity, now they rely on it for voice in 4G .. resulting in no voice service?
I've not got a CS degree (or any degree actually) and I've never really had trouble getting a job in IT. I started as a junior developer and worked my way up. I'm currently 35 and working as European Director for a large company.

As people have said, the trick is learning in your own time and learning quickly in your jobs. I agree with whoever said it that there's somethings that will be a challenge because you might not have the right level of Maths (etc) but you should be able to get by as long as you're committed.
I can never help to think that these kind of things are the latest fashion. When I was a kid in the 80's, about half of our class had their tonsils removed. A couple of years later, almost no-one had their tonsils removed, but had little tubes in their ears for medical reasons. Nowadays you never hear about tubes in ears, but ADHD/ADD seems to be the latest fad.
It was the London Millennium Bridge. Here is a video of the effect in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQK21572oSU

Here the problem is attributed to the peoples reaction. The evidence from the metronomes might suggest that it has nothing to do with people.

The fix involves changing the natural frequency of the bridge.
The theme they picked (this is from an article that ran in swedish media) is a british "Gentlemen's club". I don't know about you but for me that is a male-only upper-class establishment. I'm not so sure that's a vibe you want your indie gaming company to project.

Then again, you can't politize everything and it's probably meant to just be different and be in "good fun", shrug

Guess the good thing about having your own company is that you can do what you want :)
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my point of contention is that you posit cheez's position was both: "you can only be upset about sexism if..." and "you can't comment on this if...". i fail to see how you've inferred either of those sentiments from the original post without making a lot of assumptions.
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> I would buy an ultrabook if they were priced better

Hmmm, wasn't that sort of their point...?
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